WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:08.619 The Summary of Tafsir al-Tabari, 00:00:08.619 --> 00:00:14.210 Abridged by Dr. Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:14.210 --> 00:00:17.769 Surah Al 'Imran. 00:00:17.769 --> 00:00:22.910 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:28.510 “Assuredly ye will be tried in your property and in your persons, and ye will hear much wrong from those who were given the Scripture before you, and from the idolaters. But if ye persevere and ward off (evil), then that is of the steadfast heart of things.” (3:186) 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:34.109 "You shall surely hear from those who were given the Scripture 00:00:34.109 --> 00:00:40.710 from before you, 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:45.509 and from those who associate others with Allah, much abuse; 00:00:45.509 --> 00:00:49.109 but if you remain patient and fear Allah— 00:00:49.109 --> 00:00:54.109 “Assuredly ye will be tried in your property and in your persons, and ye will hear much wrong from those who were given the Scripture before you, and from the idolaters. But if ye persevere and ward off (evil), then that is of the steadfast heart of things.” (3:186) 00:00:54.109 --> 00:00:59.320 You will surely be tested through afflictions in your wealth and your own selves, 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:04.120 and you will surely hear much abuse from the Jews and the Christians. 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.920 The abuse from the Jews was their blasphemous claim that 'Allah is poor,' 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:12.319 and their saying, 'Allah's hand is tied.' 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:16.920 And the abuse from the Christians was their saying, 'The Messiah is the son of Allah.' 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:23.120 Yet if you remain patient with what Allah has commanded you regarding them and others in His obedience, 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.719 and fear Allah concerning what He has commanded you and forbidden you, 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.519 then indeed, such patience and piety 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.120 are among the matters of firm resolve that Allah has enjoined upon you. 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.799 “And (remember) when Allah laid a charge on those who had received the Scripture (He said): Ye are to expound it to mankind and not to hide it. But they flung it behind their backs and bought thereby a little gain. Verily evil is that which they have gained thereby.” (3:187) 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:48.799 'You must make it clear to the people, 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.000 and not conceal it.' 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:57.000 But they cast it behind their backs, 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:01.000 “And (remember) when Allah laid a charge on those who had received the Scripture (He said): Ye are to expound it to mankind and not to hide it. But they flung it behind their backs and bought thereby a little gain. Verily evil is that which they have gained thereby.” (3:187) 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.000 and wretched is what they purchased. 00:02:05.420 --> 00:02:10.419 And recount also concerning these Jews and other People of the Book, O Muhammad, 00:02:10.419 --> 00:02:13.419 when Allah took a covenant from them 00:02:13.419 --> 00:02:16.419 that they must make your affair clear to the people— 00:02:16.419 --> 00:02:21.419 the very covenant He took from them to proclaim it to the people in the Torah and the Gospel. 00:02:21.419 --> 00:02:24.419 But they abandoned Allah's command and cast it aside, 00:02:24.419 --> 00:02:30.419 and bought, through their concealment, a vile and paltry gain of worldly goods. 00:02:30.419 --> 00:02:36.419 How wretched is the purchase they made by neglecting the covenant and altering the Scripture! 00:02:36.419 --> 00:02:49.740 “Think not that those who exult in what they have given, and love to be praised for what they have not done - Think not, they are in safety from the doom. A painful doom is theirs.” (3:188) 00:02:49.740 --> 00:03:04.740 “Think not that those who exult in what they have given, and love to be praised for what they have not done - Think not, they are in safety from the doom. A painful doom is theirs.” (3:188) 00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:12.150 Do not think, O Muhammad, that those who rejoice in what they have perpetrated by concealing your mission from the people— 00:03:12.150 --> 00:03:16.150 while they find you clearly written down among them in their scriptures, 00:03:16.150 --> 00:03:22.150 and I had taken the covenant from them to acknowledge your prophethood and declare your mission to humanity— 00:03:22.150 --> 00:03:30.150 and who, despite breaking My covenant, rejoice in disobeying Me and defying My command in this regard, 00:03:30.150 --> 00:03:40.180 and love to be praised by people as being people of obedience to Allah, devotion, prayer, fasting, and adherence to His revelation— 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:46.180 never think them safe from the punishment of Allah that He has prepared for His enemies in this worldly life, 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:51.180 such as being swallowed by the earth, transmutation, trembling devastation, slaying, and the like. 00:03:51.180 --> 00:04:01.310 “Unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. Allah is Able to do all things.” (3:189) 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:09.860 To Allah belongs the dominion of all that the heavens and the earth contain, and Allah is over all things competent, 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:17.860 including destroying those who say 'Allah is poor,' hastening their punishment, and all other matters. 00:04:17.860 --> 00:04:33.660 “Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and (in) the difference of night and day are tokens (of His Sovereignty) for men of understanding,” (3:190) 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:40.230 Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth are means for your livelihood, your sustenance, and your provisions; 00:04:40.230 --> 00:04:48.230 and in what He has alternated of the night and the day, making them succeed and follow one another over you, 00:04:48.230 --> 00:04:55.230 so that you go about during one for your livelihood and rest during the other for the relief of your bodies, 00:04:55.230 --> 00:04:59.230 are lessons, reminders, signs, and admonitions. 00:04:59.230 --> 00:05:06.230 So whoever among you possesses intellect and understanding knows that whoever attributes poverty to Me is false, 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:12.230 for all of that is in My Hand, alternating and directing it as I will. 00:05:12.230 --> 00:05:15.870 Take heed, therefore, O people of understanding! 00:05:15.870 --> 00:05:30.870 “Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191) 00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:45.870 “Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191) 00:05:45.870 --> 00:05:53.670 “Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and (in) the difference of night and day are tokens (of His Sovereignty) for men of understanding,” (3:190) 00:05:53.670 --> 00:05:57.670 Those who remember Allah standing in their prayers, 00:05:57.670 --> 00:06:01.670 and sitting during their tashahhud and outside their prayers, 00:06:01.670 --> 00:06:04.670 and lying down upon their sides; 00:06:04.670 --> 00:06:07.670 and who draw lessons from the craftsmanship of their Creator, 00:06:07.670 --> 00:06:13.670 knowing that none could craft this except the One like Whom there is nothing, 00:06:13.670 --> 00:06:15.670 saying: 00:06:15.670 --> 00:06:18.670 You did not create this creation in vain or in jest; 00:06:18.670 --> 00:06:21.670 You did not create it except for a momentous purpose: 00:06:21.670 --> 00:06:25.670 of reward and punishment, reckoning and recompense. 00:06:25.670 --> 00:06:29.670 Exalted are You far above doing anything in vain! 00:06:29.670 --> 00:06:33.670 Rather, You created them for a momentous matter: 00:06:33.670 --> 00:06:35.670 for Paradise or for Hellfire. 00:06:35.670 --> 00:06:40.670 Then they hasten to their Lord in supplication, begging Him to protect them from the torment of the Fire, 00:06:40.670 --> 00:06:44.670 and not to make them among those who disobeyed Him and opposed His command: 00:06:44.670 --> 00:06:53.060 “Our Lord! Whom Thou causest to enter the Fire: him indeed Thou hast confounded. For evil-doers there will be no helpers.” (3:192) 00:06:54.060 --> 00:07:00.060 'And for the wrongdoers there are no helpers. 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:07.920 Our Lord, indeed whomever You admit to the Fire—whether to abide therein eternally or not— 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:09.920 You have disgraced with torment, 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:15.920 and whoever opposes the command of Allah and disobeys Him will have no helper to assist him against Allah, 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.920 neither to avert His punishment from him nor to rescue him from His torment. 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:36.240 “Our Lord! Lo! we have heard a crier calling unto Faith: "Believe ye in your Lord!" So we believed. Our Lord! Therefor forgive us our sins, and remit from us our evil deeds, and make us die the death of the righteous.” (3:193) 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:50.240 Our Lord, forgive us our sins, expiate from us our misdeeds, 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:54.240 and take our souls in the company of the righteous. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:02.069 Our Lord, we have heard a caller summoning to faith in You, affirming Your oneness, 00:08:02.069 --> 00:08:08.069 and following and obeying Your Messenger, so we have believed in that, our Lord! 00:08:08.069 --> 00:08:13.069 So conceal our shortcomings from us and do not expose us through them on the Day of Resurrection, 00:08:13.069 --> 00:08:20.069 but rather wipe them away from us, and erase our evil deeds by Your grace and mercy, 00:08:20.069 --> 00:08:29.069 and take our souls unto Yourself among the righteous who were dutiful to Allah, Blessed and Exalted, by obeying Him and serving Him, 00:08:29.069 --> 00:08:32.070 until they pleased Him and He became pleased with them. 00:08:32.070 --> 00:08:47.389 “Our Lord! And give us that which Thou hast promised to us by Thy messengers. Confound us not upon the Day of Resurrection. Lo! Thou breakest not the tryst.” (3:194) 00:08:48.389 --> 00:08:57.190 Our Lord, grant us what You promised us through the tongues of Your messengers—that You will make Your word, the word of truth, reign supreme 00:08:57.190 --> 00:09:02.190 by granting us victory over those who disbelieved in You—and hasten that for us, 00:09:02.190 --> 00:09:06.190 for we know that You never fail in Your promise, 00:09:06.190 --> 00:09:11.190 yet we lack the patience to endure Your forbearance and respite toward them. 00:09:11.190 --> 00:09:17.190 And do not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection by exposing the sins we have committed, 00:09:17.190 --> 00:09:21.610 but rather expiate them and forgive them for us.' 00:09:21.610 --> 00:09:44.740 “And their Lord hath heard them (and He saith): Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. Ye proceed one from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain, verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow - A reward from Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards.” (3:195) 00:09:44.740 --> 00:09:56.740 “And their Lord hath heard them (and He saith): Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. Ye proceed one from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain, verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow - A reward from Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards.” (3:195) 00:09:56.740 --> 00:10:13.740 “And their Lord hath heard them (and He saith): Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. Ye proceed one from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain, verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow - A reward from Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards.” (3:195) 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:28.740 “And their Lord hath heard them (and He saith): Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. Ye proceed one from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain, verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow - A reward from Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards.” (3:195) 00:10:28.740 --> 00:10:36.470 So He answered these supplicants—concerning whom Allah described what they prayed to their Lord for— 00:10:36.470 --> 00:10:43.470 that: 'I will never allow the deed of any worker among you who performs good to be lost, whether that worker be male or female. 00:10:43.470 --> 00:10:54.470 You, O believers who remember Allah standing, sitting, and upon your sides, are of one another in mutual support, supplication, and faith; 00:10:54.470 --> 00:11:04.470 and My ruling regarding all of you in what I shall do with you is just like My ruling for any one of you: that I do not allow the deed of any male or female among you to go to waste. 00:11:04.470 --> 00:11:14.470 So those who emigrated away from their disbelieving people for the sake of Allah, were expelled from their homes, were slain in the cause of Allah, and fought therein— 00:11:14.470 --> 00:11:25.470 I will surely erase their evil deeds, bestow My pardon and mercy upon them, and admit them into Gardens beneath which rivers flow, 00:11:25.470 --> 00:11:37.470 as a reward from Allah; and with Allah is the ultimate reward for their deeds in all its varieties, which no descriptor can ever fully depict.' 00:11:37.470 --> 00:11:44.600 “Let not the vicissitude (of the success) of those who disbelieve, in the land, deceive thee (O Muhammad).” (3:196) 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:51.919 Let not the bustling and traversing of the disbelievers through the land deceive you, O Muhammad. 00:11:51.919 --> 00:12:05.139 “It is but a brief comfort. And afterward their habitation will be hell, an ill abode.” (3:197) 00:12:05.139 --> 00:12:12.750 Indeed, their movements across the lands and their trade therein are but a brief enjoyment that they enjoy for a short while, 00:12:12.750 --> 00:12:21.750 until their appointed terms arrive and death overtakes them; then their final abode after death shall be Hellfire, 00:12:21.750 --> 00:12:25.909 and wretched is the resting place and bed that is Hellfire! 00:12:25.909 --> 00:12:49.909 “But those who keep their duty to their Lord, for them are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will be safe for ever. A gift of welcome from their Lord. That which Allah hath in store is better for the righteous.” (3:198) 00:12:49.909 --> 00:12:55.909 “But those who keep their duty to their Lord, for them are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will be safe for ever. A gift of welcome from their Lord. That which Allah hath in store is better for the righteous.” (3:198) 00:12:55.909 --> 00:13:07.490 But those who feared Allah through obedience to Him and the pursuit of His good pleasure will have gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever, 00:13:07.490 --> 00:13:13.490 as an accommodation from Allah for them and as part of Allah's honor bestowed upon them. 00:13:13.490 --> 00:13:22.490 And that which is with Allah of life, honor, and a splendid final return is far better for the righteous than all the worldly bustling of the disbelievers. 00:13:22.490 --> 00:13:49.679 “And lo! of the People of the Scripture there are some who believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto you and that which was revealed unto them, humbling themselves before Allah. They purchase not a trifling gain at the price of the revelations of Allah. Verily their reward is with their Lord. Lo! Allah is swift to take account.” (3:199) 00:13:49.679 --> 00:14:02.679 “And lo! of the People of the Scripture there are some who believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto you and that which was revealed unto them, humbling themselves before Allah. They purchase not a trifling gain at the price of the revelations of Allah. Verily their reward is with their Lord. Lo! Allah is swift to take account.” (3:199) 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:10.480 And indeed, among the people of the Torah and the Gospel are those who believe in Allah, affirming His oneness, 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:21.480 and believe in what has been revealed to you, O believers, of His Scripture and revelation, as well as what was revealed to the People of the Book, humbly submissive to Allah in obedience. 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:33.480 They do not distort what was revealed to them in His scriptures regarding the description of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, so as to alter it, nor any other of His rulings and proofs therein, 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:41.480 for the sake of a fleeting, vile gain of this world given to them in exchange for such alteration, or out of desire for leadership over the ignorant. 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:50.539 Rather, they yield to the truth—those who believe in Allah, in what was sent down to you, and in what was sent down to them. 00:14:50.539 --> 00:15:03.539 They shall have the recompense of the deeds they performed and the reward of their obedience to their Lord, preserved for them in His presence until they return to Him on the Day of Resurrection, whereupon He will grant them their reward in full. 00:15:03.539 --> 00:15:13.539 Indeed, Allah is swift in reckoning; nothing of their deeds is hidden from Him, so He has no need to manually count their tally. 00:15:14.539 --> 00:15:31.769 O you who have believed, persevere, outlast in patience, remain stationed on guard, and fear Allah that you may succeed. 00:15:33.860 --> 00:15:43.860 O you who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, be patient upon your religion and in obedience to your Lord; outlast your polytheist enemies in steadfastness; 00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:52.860 and stand vigilant at the front lines against your enemies and the enemies of your religion among the polytheists in the cause of Allah, and fear Allah, O believers! 00:15:52.860 --> 00:16:01.860 Beware of disobeying His command, so that you may succeed, abiding in everlasting bliss and attaining what you sought from Him. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:07.419 The Summary of Tafsir al-Tabari.